Covering Bellingen Shire – from the ocean to the mountains
We usually miss the worst of the bushfires up here, but sometimes…
We’ve got some heat moving through today and tomorrow, then a brief cool down before another warm day on Saturday. Here’s the forecast max temps from the EC model for today through Saturday: It doesn’t look like we’ll see much rain over the next week – forecast 7 day totals below: Other models agree, with […]
Something that many parts of NE NSW have wanted for some time – a decent widespread rain event – should kick off through tomorrow, before clearing away through Saturday. The reason for the rain? Some cold air from deep down south moving north across our region. Here’s how the upper pattern (colours) and surface pattern […]
Not the first time to write along a similar theme this season….After a very hot day on Monday we were lucky to find ourselves sitting just south of the trough through yesterday – and what a difference that made. Grafton, Casino and areas north had very hot temperatures and strong dry winds through the day…and […]
The long predicted dive in the Antarctic Oscillation (also known as the Southern Annular Mode) looks like it will kick in over the next week or so….and that could mean some interesting weather for us over the next couple of months. The latest forecast is below: For the nerds amongst us I’ve also thrown together […]
Not going to be posting every day…but had to post these images – actually starting to look fairly decent for some rain over the next couple of weeks…and not just for in the valley but also up on the hills as well. Here’s the Bello rain forecast across a range of models for the next […]
We’ve got a change moving through early this week that has the potential to bring some rain. It actually looks like it will bring a lot of rain to the south of us, but more touch and go for our region. Some models show reasonable totals but others show very little. It doesn’t look like […]
Shorter term we could see some rain, but longer term the outlook is weighted towards drier than average.
A very humid start to Tuesday, with a feel-like temp already over 30C despite the cloud. Here’s the dew point for 7am this morning (dew point is the temp at which dew would form as the air reaches 100% humidity – so the higher the total the wetter the air – in these charts the […]
Some images to tell a story…With more cloud cover it was cooler today: Looking much warmer for tomorrow (Tuesday): Wednesday is looking really hot: The big difference between today and Wednesday is the dew point – how humid it is. Close to the coast a sea breeze will likely keep humidity levels up, but you […]
Getting Hot, Staying Hot……at least until next Thursday. Forecast 1pm temps for Sunday getting up there: Monday – not much change… Looking similar through until Wednesday. In the words of the BoM: “Severe to extreme heatwave conditions are forecast to develop over central and southeastern Queensland. The low intensity heatwave conditions shifts further north extending […]